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Pink fameflower

(Phemeranthus longipes)

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Description

Plants to 1.5 dm; roots slender, elongate, tortuous, woody. Stems - erect, simple or branching, sometimes bearing persistent midribs of dead leaves basally, suffrutescent. Leaves sessile; blade terete, 1-2.5 cm. Inflorescences cymose, much overtopping leaves; peduncle scapelike, to 12 cm. Flowers: sepals deciduous, often pinkish, orbiculate to suborbiculate, 2-3 mm; petals pink, obovate, 4-5 mm; stamens 10; stigmas 3, linear. Capsules subglobose, 3.5 mm. Seeds with arcuate ridges, 1 mm.Flowering Jul-Sep. Open areas in canyons and on slopes, and crests; 1600-2000 m; N.Mex., Tex.; n Mexico (Tamaulipas).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Montiaceae
Genus:Phemeranthus
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